Posted:September 9, 2014

UMBEL Version 1.10 Released

Much Clean-up, Consistency Brought to New Version

Structured Dynamics today released version 1.10 of its open source UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) reference concept ontology. This new release is in preparation for a series of subsequent releases planned over the next few months as additional consistency and functionality is brought to the system.

This is the first UMBEL version to be created and loaded from scratch using a new Clojure scripting framework. Fred Giasson describes these scripts and highlights some of the new functionality in a separate blog post.

Besides this new processing framework, here are the key changes at a high level made in this new version:

Reconciliation with the parent OpenCyc concepts

Added reference concept definitions where missing

Added additional altLabels (to the semsets) in many cases

Checked graph integrity for relationships between concepts

Reviewed and corrected prefLabels to make them unique (for more usefulness in autocompletion)

These changes have also resulted in some improvements to the umbel.org Web site and its Web services, as more fully described by Fred. The updated ontologies and mappings may be found at the UMBEL GitHub site.

What’s In the Pipeline

As noted, this version update is in preparation for some pending activities, which are now moving toward completion. Subsequent releases (perhaps not in the order shown) will include:

Introduction of a new reference Attributes Ontology as a new module extension to UMBEL

Completion of the mappings to the English Wikipedia

Adding new concepts resulting from these Wikipedia mappings, plus adding concepts to complete 100% mappings to GeoNames, DBpedia and schema.org

Additional definition and semset updates to the structure

Checks to external mappings for consistency

Automated tests for completing the integrity of the UMBEL graph by identifying missing connecting concepts

An improved method to extend disjointedness assertions across the UMBEL structure

Structured Dynamics today released version 1.10 of its open source UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) reference concept ontology. This new release is in preparation for a series of subsequent releases planned over the next few months as additional consistency and functionality is brought to the system.